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Gerardo Fraenkel

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Description

He was born in Berlin, Germany on September 23, 1930. Gerard's father had fought in the German army during World War I and believed that nothing would happen to them until foreign representatives of a Jewish institution asked his mother to help obtain permits for other families who needed to leave the country - a time-consuming task that put her in contact with members of the Gestapo - and she understood the true danger of the situation. When they learned that those over 50 were to be taken to the concentration camp, Gerard's father hid in the suitcase of the car and his mother drove to the Dutch border with Gerard in the back seat. They managed to get Gerard's father across the border and meet relatives. In June 1940 they got tickets to leave Germany with his mother and grandmother. In a plane they arrived in Minsk, then by train to China, then in a ship casually called "Montevideo" they traveled from China to Japan, where he lived for two months and was reunited with the rest of his family. Then by ship to Uruguay, where he finished his fifth year of school and formed his life projects. Gerardo has children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and wrote the book "A Long Way Home" in order to pass on his story and experience to the younger ones. Testimony: "My father was waiting for us at the port of Montevideo, in my vision I saw him much older. When we arrived we went to live in a boarding house on 26 de Marzo and Martí. The next day, I had my first walk with my father; I loved the beach. To this day when I look at the beach I can, at times, feel my father's hand as I did that day"; quote from his book "A long way home" Montevideo - Uruguay 2020 aaronsosa.eth.co www.aaronsosaphotography.com Digital Photography Size: 6000 x 4000px 300 DPI About this project: In the history of mankind there can be found no other crime so heinous, nor so coldly calculated, as the one that as that which annihilated millions of human beings in the Nazi concentration camps. This project has allowed me to enter for a brief moment into the lives of an important group of these exiles and survivors, who arrived in Latin American lands many years ago to start a new life; and who have given me the honor of knowing a little about them and their experiences, as well as to photograph them and immortalize them through photography. So far in minting this collection I have been able to portray 58 survivors: 20 from Venezuela 25 from Uruguay 13 from Argentina The first part of the survivors that arrived in Venezuela were minted as 1/1 NFTs on the ETH blockchain. I have decided to make the survivors that arrived in Uruguay available in editions of 50 on the Tezos blockchain and the survivors from Argentina will be minted later. My intention with the sale of the NFTs is to self-finance the project to give it continuity. Soon I must travel to Chile where there are 13 survivors waiting to be portrayed and then continue moving around Latin America to continue with the project. Another of the main objectives is to finance the printing of a book that gathers all the portraits, biographies and testimonies of each survivor. License: NFT holders are free to use it in advertising, private exhibition, in groups, virtual galleries, magazines or any other digital or physical media by the NFT holder, as long as the original artist is credited and be communicated by e-mail aaronsosaphotographer@gmail.com. No merchandising, commercial distribution or derivatives are allowed. Copyright remains with the creator.